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  • 1. 
    Which U.S. president was the first to appear on television?

  • Ronald Reagan
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Richard Nixon

  • 2. 
    Which state seceded from Virginia in 1863?

  • North Carolina
  • West Virginia
  • Maryland
  • the District of Columbia

  • 3. 
    Which war interrupted construction of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.?

  • Persian Gulf War
  • American Civil War
  • World War II
  • War of 1812

  • 4. 
    The first American president to live in the White House was:

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • George Washington
  • John Adams
  • Thomas Jefferson

  • 5. 
    What American president is associated with the Teddy Bear?

  • Richard Nixon
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Ted Kennedy

  • 6. 
    Who was named president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?

  • Grover Cleveland
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Theodore Roosevelt

  • 7. 
    How many presidents were born before the United States became a nation?

  • 8
  • 10
  • 6
  • 12

  • 8. 
    How many lifeboats did the Titanic have?

  • 14
  • 24
  • 27
  • 20

  • 9. 
    After the Titanic broke in two, how long did it take for the bow to reach the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean?

  • 6 minutes
  • 3 minutes
  • 30 seconds
  • 1 minute

  • 10. 
    When was the wreck of the Titanic discovered?

  • 1991
  • 1980
  • 1985
  • 1920

  • 11. 
    Who commanded the Confederate army in the American Civil War?

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Stonewall Jackson

  • 12. 
    Which American Civil War general later became president of the United States?

  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • George Armstrong Custer
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Abner Doubleday

  • 13. 
    Which of these ships fought in the first battle between ironclads?

  • Pinafore
  • Titanic
  • Monitor
  • Lusitania

  • 14. 
    Which of these was not a Civil War battle?

  • Battle of Antietam
  • Battle of the Bulge
  • Battle of Manassas
  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • 15. 
    Which era immediately followed the American Civil War?

  • Reformation
  • Renaissance
  • Reconstruction
  • Gilded Age

  • 16. 
    Which famous monument did Shah Jahān build to immortalize his wife?

  • Taj Mahal
  • Golestan Palace
  • the Jāmeh Mosque of Isfahān
  • Angkor Wat

  • 17. 
    The term “D-Day” refers to the Allied invasion of Japan during World War II.

  • false
  • true

  • 18. 
    During World War II, the Germans had a great victory at Stalingrad.

  • true
  • false

  • 19. 
    Naples, Italy, suffered extensive damage during World War II.

  • true
  • false

  • 20. 
    No World War II battles were fought in North America.

  • true
  • false

  • 21. 
    Japan won the Battle of Midway during World War II

  • false
  • true

  • 22. 
    How long did it take to build the Titanic?

  • one year
  • three years
  • two years
  • four years

  • 23. 
    Which treaty ended the War of 1812?

  • Treaty of Ghent
  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • Maastricht Treaty

  • 24. 
    Who restored democratic rule to the Philippines after the long dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos?

  • Corazon Aquino
  • Benigno Aquino III
  • Fidel Ramos
  • Manuel Roxas

  • 25. 
    When did the Great Irish Famine begin?

  • 1845
  • 1895
  • 1925
  • 1810

  • 26. 
    What was the name of Franz Ferdinand’s assassin?

  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • John Wilkes Booth
  • Gavrilo Princip
  • Lee Harvey Oswald

  • 27. 
    Who was the architect who rebuilt London after the Great Fire of 1666?

  • Christopher Robin
  • I.M. Pei
  • Christopher Columbus
  • Christopher Wren

  • 28. 
    When did Switzerland officially gain its independence?

  • 1688
  • 1798
  • 1648
  • 1708

  • 29. 
    Who was Emiliano Zapata?

  • a physicist
  • a baseball player
  • a musician
  • a revolutionary

  • 30. 
    Which peasant girl led the French army at Orléans during the Hundred Years’ War?

  • Eleanor of Aquitaine
  • Joan of Arc
  • Mathilde of Flanders
  • Elizabeth I

  • 31. 
    Which Siberian peasant and mystic had a curious ability to heal the son of Emperor Nicholas II, which made him an influential favourite at the court?

  • Mikhail Borodin
  • L. Martov
  • Grigori Rasputin
  • Vladimir Purishkevich

  • 32. 
    Who was the wartime nurse known as the “Lady with the Lamp"?

  • Mother Theresa
  • Edith Cavell
  • Florence Nightingale
  • Flora Macdonald

  • 33. 
    In what country did the Battle of Waterloo take place?

  • France
  • the Netherlands
  • Belgium
  • Germany

  • 34. 
    Which of these was not a battle fought in World War II?

  • Anzio
  • Okinawa
  • Iwo Jima
  • Gettysburg

  • 35. 
    Which leader was overthrown by the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003?

  • Abdel Gamel Nasser
  • King Saud
  • Indira Gandhi
  • Saddam Hussein

  • 36. 
    Which type of aircraft was used to bomb Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II?

  • B-52 Stratofortress
  • B-29 Superfortress
  • B-17 Flying Fortress
  • B-24 Liberator

  • 37. 
    Which two Asian countries are divided by the 38th parallel?

  • Laos and Cambodia
  • Thailand and Malaysia
  • North and South Korea
  • North and South Vietnam

  • 38. 
    Who is known as the "Father of Medicine"?

  • Hippocrene
  • Augustus
  • Hippocrates
  • Hesiod

  • 39. 
    In what modern-day country was Karl Marx, the communist philosopher, born?

  • Russia
  • China
  • France
  • Germany

  • 40. 
    What was American abolitionist Harriet Tubman’s original name?

  • Araminta Ross
  • Harriet Jones
  • Anges Tubman
  • Chloe Abernathy

  • 41. 
    What war correspondent reported on the Battle of Omdurman?

  • Bernard Fall
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Winston Churchill
  • Ernie Pyle
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